During the decades since the Civil War our Nation has enjoyed the cheapest food supply of any other great industrial nation. This result grew out of certain developments. The homestead law by which our public domain was given to actual settlers was one of these causes. The building of the great transcontinental railways by Government subsidy. which gave these lines of transportation in advance of the natural development of the Continent. was another. The improvement in American agricultUral machinery about this time was a third. Universal immigration attracted European farmers to our Nation. The actual result was a superabundant food supply with consequent low prices. Those were the dark days in American agriculture.
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